MPAA Threatens To Disconnect Google From Internet

An anonymous reader writes "Over the last few months, Google has received more than 100 copyright infringement warnings from MPAA-affiliated movies studios. Most are directed at users of Google's public Wi-Fi service, but others are meant for Google employees. The MPAA is thus warning the search giant that it might get disconnected from the Internet. Although the copyright holders use strong language, these notices are simply warnings, and typically do not lead to legal action."

Comments

Moving the earth rather than changing themselves

[mykos]

No law is adequate, no business is more important, no constitutional right can supersede the wishes of the commercial content industry.

Re:Illegal Threats?

[Locke2005]

I think the word you're looking for is "barratry".

Re:I think it's time

[Chyeld]

Actually no. It's a mutated urban legend based on the truth that they did refuse to speak to CNET's reporters for a year after CNET published an article containing a number of personal facts about Eric that they 'discovered' using Google.

Re:I think it's time

[Stregano]

You are talking like Google is still a small time shop here. You are also talking like Google has never de-indexed a site before.
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Re:I think it's time

[jjinco33]

Actually according to http://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html Google broke $10 billion in profit.

Re:there once was a time

[WeatherServo9]

Avatar made money only because it was a first of the new technology of 3d. It has zero re-watch-ability so DVD sales will be dismal at best.

Dismal at best? Avatar-DVD-and-Blu-ray-smash-sales-records or how about 'Avatar' DVD sells big, despite paltry two dimensions or Avatar Crushes Yet Another Record: DVD and Blu-Ray Sales. Just a few random links, google revealed quite a few saying the same thing. I'm sure some people bought a copy and then regretted it, but it seems a lot people didn't seem to mind (or didn't expect to mind) the lack of 3D.

Re:I think it's time

[brunes69]

All of the members of the MPAA combined have a market cap barely more than Google itself

Disney - 82 billion
Viacom - 26 billion
News corp. - 44 billion
Time Warner - 40 billion
NBC Universal - 35 billion estimated
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Total = 227 billion

Google - 196 billion

Re:More evidence of MPAA thuggery

[RedACE7500]

at least not without the help of a Republican president.

Who is it that's sitting in the White House, pushing for an internet kill switch and is already taking control of domains suspected of activities related to possible copyright infringement?